CUSTOMER TESTIMONIALS

Here is some feedback from just a few of our happy customers:

"We are extremely grateful for the project management skills FBC Ltd. has brought into this complex and long lasting challenge. The professionalism and continued commitment over the past 22 months' has made all the difference on the rough route to realisation and Go-Live. We all appreciated Mr Crossman's advice and experience, his high cultural awareness and his open discussions as well as his honed project controlling skills. The co-operation with the ASSA teams across the multi-skilled and multi-national teams has been exemplary. Many thanks again for this!"

"FBC was engaged to project manage our huge, time critical investment programme for the production line upgrade. Mr Crossman has displayed strong communication skills and high enthusiasm managing and completing our project successfully on time. A great professional attitude, especially in managing multicultural project teams !"

FBC has "succeeded in saving a business and its 50 work places... Mr Crossman professionally turned the business around ...
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by restructuring the entire organisation, reducing the overhead costs by more than 1 million Euros and recovering a considerable part of the sales activities."
FBC also managed to present to us "several interested investors".
"We feel that if he had not continued to run the company (as an interim director) and played an active part in the sale of the business, the survival of Fiberdur would have been very unlikely, if not impossible."

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OUR CLIENT PROFILE

Interim Operations Director UK: a 6-months' turnaround project with a global pharma packaging manufacturer with 4 paper converting plants for medical cartons and leaflets. FBC Ltd. was called in to stabilise the UK operations with 2 of the 4 plants in need of a turnaround in combination with a considerable culture change. The 2 major achievements were implementing the teamwork culture to enable people and processes to be aligned and a major cost savings package. This was implemented to save on raw material consumption and better usage, to reduce waste and increase production throughput at better labour efficiency for 2018 and going forward into 2019.

Interim Senior Project Manager: a 22-months' project and change management contract with a global security lock manufacturer. FBC Ltd. rescued a failing multinational project to introduce a new complex security lock range into the EU markets. We guided the business through the completion process of the various unfinished phases from design to serial testing & approval, supply chain set up and implementation and the set-up of the manufacturing facility in Romania.

This successful completion triggered a sub-sequential 14 months' project for the relocation of an entire product range of electro-mechanical locks from Germany to the Czech Republic. We transferred the entire supply chain including 3 assembly lines from their 2 German plants to the CZ plant on time and on budget.

Interim MD & ERP Pilot Project Management: a 7-months' turnaround and OPS improvement project within the organisation of a global liquid packaging manufacturer for bag-in-a-box systems. During this period we also implemented and commissioned the group-wide new ERP supply chain system by QAD.

Project & Change Management: a 9-months' improvement and conversion project to automate a mostly manual production process for medical sterilisation products and double the line output. For the implementation of the 2 new lines an investment of US$ 5m was provided to allow for a complete re-design of the packaging and the acquisition of dedicated state-of-the art packaging equipment for the complex product range. Needless to say that the supply chain had to remain unaffected.

Rescue and Operational Turnaround: a 5-months' transformation project to save a waste handling business from closure and revert the financial loss of 100k per month to a black Zero.

FBC provided market intelligence for 2 independent US capital providers in connection with major merger/acquisition project and prepared a due diligence evaluation for several European sites.

Project analysis and appraisal of complex sediment dredging management concept to reverse the sedimentation in the ELBE river

Global market research studies

The global demand of plastic caps & closures between 2005 and 2010 (2005)

Developments in Packaging Machinery for Filling (2007)

Global Legislation and Regulation on Paper Packaging Waste (2008)

Global Legislation and Regulation on Plastics Packaging Waste (2008)

Operational / PBIT improvements and preparation for merger with
bed manufacturing group

Strategic analysis and feasibility study for divestment of European manufacturing group in close cooperation with law firm.

FBC provided interim management during insolvency proceedings to secure financial return. Interim Directorship to recover company from insolvency and saving it from liquidation. Completed due diligence and its asset sale / acquisition with new investor group.

Then FBC supported business integration phase alongside the new investor.

Due diligence for leading global manufacturer of printing inks

Compilation and translation of corporate identity and product marketing brochures